Coal Mining Books

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Gray Mountain Gray Mountain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as coal-mining)
avg rating 3.68 — 109,199 ratings — published 2014
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The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1) The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as coal-mining)
avg rating 4.22 — 264,870 ratings — published 2019
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Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1) Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as coal-mining)
avg rating 4.33 — 348,300 ratings — published 2005
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Faith, Hope, and Ivy June Faith, Hope, and Ivy June (Library Binding)
by (shelved 7 times as coal-mining)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,562 ratings — published 2009
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How Green Was My Valley How Green Was My Valley (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as coal-mining)
avg rating 4.21 — 18,892 ratings — published 1939
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The Hollow Ground The Hollow Ground (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as coal-mining)
avg rating 3.54 — 1,123 ratings — published 2014
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Coal River Coal River (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as coal-mining)
avg rating 3.95 — 13,098 ratings — published 2015
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The Secret Wisdom of the Earth The Secret Wisdom of the Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as coal-mining)
avg rating 4.10 — 9,699 ratings — published 2015
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The Giver of Stars The Giver of Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as coal-mining)
avg rating 4.29 — 510,765 ratings — published 2019
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Town Is by the Sea Town Is by the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as coal-mining)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,765 ratings — published 2017
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Storming Heaven Storming Heaven (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as coal-mining)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,190 ratings — published 1987
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Rocket Boys (Coalwood #1) Rocket Boys (Coalwood #1)
by (shelved 3 times as coal-mining)
avg rating 4.20 — 24,214 ratings — published 1998
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Appalachian Mountain Girl: Coming of Age in Coal Mine Country Appalachian Mountain Girl: Coming of Age in Coal Mine Country (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as coal-mining)
avg rating 4.02 — 241 ratings — published 1998
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Germinal Germinal (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as coal-mining)
avg rating 4.20 — 43,274 ratings — published 1885
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The Coal Tattoo The Coal Tattoo (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as coal-mining)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,045 ratings — published 2004
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Sky of Stone  (Coalwood, #3) Sky of Stone (Coalwood, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as coal-mining)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,284 ratings — published 2001
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Rednecks Rednecks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as coal-mining)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,003 ratings — published 2024
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River of Earth River of Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as coal-mining)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,247 ratings — published 1940
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Coal: A Human History Coal: A Human History (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as coal-mining)
avg rating 3.73 — 2,272 ratings — published 2003
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Homegoing Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as coal-mining)
avg rating 4.47 — 405,576 ratings — published 2016
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Zero Day (John Puller, #1) Zero Day (John Puller, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as coal-mining)
avg rating 4.07 — 86,794 ratings — published 2011
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The Outlander The Outlander (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as coal-mining)
avg rating 3.75 — 10,936 ratings — published 2007
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Rose Rose (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as coal-mining)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,549 ratings — published 1996
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A Diamond in the Dust A Diamond in the Dust (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as coal-mining)
avg rating 4.27 — 15 ratings — published 2001
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Thunder & Roses (Fallen Angels, #1) Thunder & Roses (Fallen Angels, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as coal-mining)
avg rating 4.02 — 6,867 ratings — published 1993
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Heart of Coal Heart of Coal (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as coal-mining)
avg rating 3.94 — 523 ratings — published 2004
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The Pitman's Daughter The Pitman's Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as coal-mining)
avg rating 4.13 — 90 ratings — published 2013
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Black Diamonds Black Diamonds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as coal-mining)
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 1947
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Wish You Well Wish You Well (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as coal-mining)
avg rating 4.06 — 32,609 ratings — published 2000
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Strange as This Weather Has Been Strange as This Weather Has Been (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as coal-mining)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,534 ratings — published 2007
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The Unquiet Earth The Unquiet Earth (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as coal-mining)
avg rating 4.25 — 745 ratings — published 1992
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A Coal Miner's Bride: The Diary of Anetka Kaminska, Lattimer, Pennsylvania, 1896 (Dear America) A Coal Miner's Bride: The Diary of Anetka Kaminska, Lattimer, Pennsylvania, 1896 (Dear America)
by (shelved 2 times as coal-mining)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,778 ratings — published 2000
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The Coalwood Way: A Memoir  (Coalwood, #2) The Coalwood Way: A Memoir (Coalwood, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as coal-mining)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,908 ratings — published 2000
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The Industry of Souls The Industry of Souls (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as coal-mining)
avg rating 4.26 — 788 ratings — published 1998
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All the Light We Cannot See All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as coal-mining)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,986,123 ratings — published 2014
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News from Heaven: Acclaimed Short Stories of Family Life and Redemption in a Small Pennsylvania Town News from Heaven: Acclaimed Short Stories of Family Life and Redemption in a Small Pennsylvania Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as coal-mining)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,840 ratings — published 2013
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A Terrible Kindness A Terrible Kindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as coal-mining)
avg rating 4.29 — 24,348 ratings — published 2022
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Coal Miners' Wives: Portraits of Endurance Coal Miners' Wives: Portraits of Endurance (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as coal-mining)
avg rating 4.00 — 9 ratings — published 1995
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Along Came a Lady (All the Duke's Sins, #1) Along Came a Lady (All the Duke's Sins, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as coal-mining)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,656 ratings — published 2021
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Our Story: 77 Hours That Tested Our Friendship and Our Faith Our Story: 77 Hours That Tested Our Friendship and Our Faith (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as coal-mining)
avg rating 3.90 — 143 ratings — published
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Rinker Rinker (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as coal-mining)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
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October in the Earth October in the Earth (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as coal-mining)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,166 ratings — published 2023
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A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as coal-mining)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,425 ratings — published 2019
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George and Robert Stephenson: The Railway Revolution George and Robert Stephenson: The Railway Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as coal-mining)
avg rating 4.41 — 27 ratings — published 1977
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Black Diamonds: The Rise and Fall of an English Dynasty Black Diamonds: The Rise and Fall of an English Dynasty (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as coal-mining)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,224 ratings — published 2007
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Goodnight Lady Goodnight Lady (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as coal-mining)
avg rating 4.48 — 4,668 ratings — published 1994
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Until Our Blood is Dry Until Our Blood is Dry (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as coal-mining)
avg rating 4.17 — 36 ratings — published 2014
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Clay's Quilt Clay's Quilt (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as coal-mining)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,867 ratings — published 2001
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“Who is destroying the mountains of eastern Kentucky and West Virginia?...It isn't the coal companies. It's us...You did this. Okay, forget the guilt. How can we change that?”
Erik Reece, Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia

Émile Zola
“Etienne now commanded a view of the whole district. It was still very dark, but the old man had peopled the darkness with untold sufferings, which the young one could sense all round him in the limitless space. Could he not hear a cry of famine borne over this bleak country by the March wind? The gale had lashed itself into a fury and seemed to be blowing death to all labour and a great hunger that would finish off men by the hundred. And with his roving eye he tried to peer through the gloom, with a tormenting desire to see and yet a fear of seeing. Everything slid away in the dark unknown, and all he could see was distant furnaces and coke-ovens which, set in batteries of a hundred chimneys arranged obliquely, made sloping lines of crimson flames; whilst further to the left the two blast-furnaces were burning blue in the sky like monstrous torches. It was as depressing to watch as a building on fire: as far as the threatening horizon the only stars which rose were the nocturnal fires of the land of coal and iron.”
emile zola, Germinal

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